Danny Leipziger is the managing director of the Growth Dialogue, a network that works to extend economic growth to as many places on the planet as possible. Driven by a passionate belief that without growth, sustainable development and improvements in people’s lives are impossible, the Growth Dialogue seeks to connect high level policymakers and thought leaders with those whose policy decisions can benefit from practical experience and the latest work on economic growth.

Dr. Leipziger formerly headed the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) vice presidency, a network of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries. In this capacity, he provided strategic leadership and direction to regional PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance.

He was heavily involved in positioning the Bank on major economic policy issues and in managing the Bank’s overall interactions on these issues with key partner institutions – including the IMF, OECD, WTO, EU and the G8/G20. He led the repositioning of the World Bank on econonomic growth and launched the Bank’s Gender Action Plan. He advised to three World Bank Presidents and represented the Bank at major international conferences.

Dr. Leipziger has also provided commentary and analysis in both English and Spanish to newspapers such as the Financial Times and Le Monde, as well as to television networks such as the BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg Television.

Current research interests include economic growth and growth strategies for emerging market and developing economies; policies designed to achieve sustained and sustainable economic growth; the role of urbanization and cities in development; links between inequality and growth; and the role of innovation as it affects growth, employment and inequality. Professor Leipziger welcomes media inquiries on these and other topics, including: Globalization and international economic policy East Asia and Latin America The role of international institutions Financing economic growth and development

“Ascent After Decline: Regrowing Global Economies after the Great Recession,” 2012, The World Bank and the Growth Dialogue, Washington, D.C., (edited with O. Canuto).

Macroeconomics for the Global Economy

Managing in Developing Countries

Special Topics: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets

International Monetary and Financial Issues

Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM), The World Bank, Washington, D.C. Led the PREM Network of 1,000 professionals, provided leadership for the Bank’s economic policy, debt, trade, gender and governance work, and for the bank’s policy coordination on key global issues with key partner institutions — including the IMF, WTO, OECD, and the EU. Leader of World Bank delegations to Hong Kong Trade, OECD, G8, and ministerials. Highlights include launching the Commission on Growth and Development (Spence Commission), and launching the Gender Action Plan that raised $80 million in donor funding to support economic empowerment of women — activities known as “Gender Equality as Smart Economics.”

Vice Chair, Commission on Growth and Development, The World Bank, led by Michael Spence.

Chairman, World Bank Sanctions Board, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Director, Finance, Infrastructure and Private Sector Group, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. manager of a group of more than 100 professionals providing technical services – projects, sectoral advice and analyses – to the region in areas of finance, transport, water, urban, energy and regulation.